[SVTCobra03]

If they had left before the flooding had begun lives would have been saved.

[familyop]

"If they had left before the flooding had begun lives would have been saved."

Back the in late 1960s, a family left a city in Texas to escape from an approaching hurricane; it was a really wet one. As the family drove inland toward another city, the highway flooded something terrible. They barely made it. The city they escaped from was hardly touched.

[familyop]

The point is that Texas is huge and flat. Hurricanes are also huge.

I can’t imagine trying to evacuate from Florida. That would be dicey and horrible indeed.